The Roman Catholic Womenpriests (RCWP) movement started in 2001 with the contra legem (“against canon law”) ordinations of 7 women to priesthood. To date, roughly 250 women have been ordained through ...
The call to religious vocation came at different times in different ways. For some, it was a thunderclap, a great moment of clarity. For others, it was a building crescendo after a lifetime of being ...
There’s the Pope Francis buzz. And then there’s reality. One group in particular remains highly skeptical that any real changes will occur: the women already ordained as Roman Catholic priests. Roman ...
In 2002 seven Roman Catholic women were ordained in Austria on the Danube River by an independent Catholic bishop, Romulo Antonio Braschi. Later unnamed Roman Catholic bishops ordained some of these ...
The ethnographic work Womanpriest: Tradition and Transgression in the Contemporary Roman Catholic Church by Jill Peterfeso is one of the most comprehensive studies of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests ...
The Rev. Amy Bruner, RCWP, is with Des Moines Catholic Worker in Des Moines. The Rev. Mary Kay Kusner, RCWP, is with Full Circle Catholic Community in Iowa City. Bishop Martha Sherman of Washington, ...
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